Nutritional deficiencies in patients with Crohn's disease in remission
✍ Scribed by Jérôme Filippi; Rima Al-Jaouni; Jean-Baptiste Wiroth; Xavier Hébuterne; Stéphane M. Schneider
- Book ID
- 110087371
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 179 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1078-0998
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